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The European Journal of Public Health 2008 18(1):1; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckm114
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Editorial

The Finnish dance of death: impressions from Helsinki

Johan P. Mackenbach

Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Correspondence: Johan P Mackenbach, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, the Netherlands, e-mail: j.mackenbach@erasmusmc.nl

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The annual meetings of the European Public Health Association provide good opportunities for experiencing different European cultures, and in October 2007 we all went to Helsinki to see what makes Finland special. Its very high density of public health researchers perhaps? The very slow, very cautious manner of speaking of many of its inhabitants, including researchers? Or the Finnish successes in systematically lowering cardiovascular disease mortality?

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